Knitting Box – Page 9 – I knit, I sew, I blog

New old books

The uni near our home holds a huge second-hand book fair every year in April, so Annette and I braved the rain to check it out yesterday. Not much luck in the Crafts and Knitting section unfortunately, but found lots of books for Annette in the childrens section, mostly for 50 cents each.

I just love the look of these old cloth-bound books.

Particularly the kittens on the cover.

And inside the Mother Goose book there’s these lovely illustrations that I just couldn’t pass up.

We’re having a long weekend here (yay!), I hope you all have a good one!

26 April 2008

Some colours on a grey day

Back in June last year when I went to the Sydney Craft Fair, I bought two bags of mill ends from Kaalund Yarns. The bags contained various little mill end balls of Kaalund’s yarn ranges, from laceweights to some chunky “thick and thins”. I haven’t done anything to most of them yet, but I thought the thick and thins could make a nice beanie. The colours that I picked are very bright ones, there’s no way I could pull off wearing them. But the colours would be great on Annette I reckon. So I gathered up all the thick and thins.

Then started knitting in the round. I just picked up a ball, worked on that until it ran out, then picked up another, joined, knitted again, and so on. And tada! A crazy hat 🙂

23 April 2008

Much better!

Tangled Yoke has been growing quite fast. (Amazing what being at home sick for almost a week can do! I’m feeling much better now, thankfully. Annette is back at preschool too this week, and things are starting to feel normal again around here. Thanks again for all the get well wishes!) I’ve finished the body up to just before the yoke, and now am working on the first sleeve. The sleeves are worked in the round, so I won’t have to seam that up either. Yay!

And for my macro photo of the day, some wildflowers I found on my walk to the preschool yesterday. I have no idea what these are called, anybody knows? They’re very tiny, probably the size of my finger nails.

Edited to add: The flowers are called Pink Knotweed, as Taryn said in the comments. Thanks Taryn!

22 April 2008

Consuming copious amounts of this

Thank you so much for the get well wishes in the last post. The germs are still here unfortunately, I can’t wait to kick them out!

18 April 2008

Tweedy

Eeek, I’m very behind on my 30 day photo challenge. That virus that’s been going around has kindly visited our home and has taken to going from one family member to another. It’s overstaying its welcome, if you ask me! (Not that it was welcome in the first place!) It’s kind of zapped my photo-taking mojo out of me. I’ll catch up later, I suppose.

In the mean time, lets look at some knitting. Thank goodness for knitting, it’s just about the only thing I feel like doing at the moment.

Been working on Tangled Yoke, which is going quite well. It’s a bit difficult to photograph the whole thing, as it’s quite wide (you knit the body — the back and two fronts — all in one piece from the bottom up, so it’s supposed to be almost seamless in the end). I have just finished the seemingly interminable ribbing, and starting on the miles and miles of stocking stitch ahead. Hehe. But it’s all good. Good tv knitting.

16 April 2008